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Stealhead · 11-22-12, 11:30 PM

I don't think you can really say who won the Cold War to be honest.True the Soviet Union collapsed and the West did "win" in that respect.Some wars where seen as part of the Cold War and one side or another got involved in them.Vietnam is a great example of this because we failed to realize that we were entering a civil war between the Vietnamese.

The Russians did not gain from the out come of the Cold War very much at all.The Russian government made very little money on all of the arms because they had been giving it away for so long few people needed new weapons.

If anything the end of the Cold War has allowed other nations to rise like China, Brazil and India.Generally speaking from a hegemonic point of view little has changed the Russians have less power but try to strongly influence neighbors and Russia still sees the West/NATO as a threat.The same can be said for the US and both the US and Russia still maintain sizable stockpiles of nuclear weapons.The game has not ended more than changed slightly and some nations are becoming big players that where not big players 40 years ago.

A world war in the sense of WWII or WWI wont happen again.You will either see smaller nations fight smaller nations or a larger nation fight a smaller nation or group on a limited scale.A true world conflict would result in the major players using nuclear weapons against each other and that would be that more or unless you are a cock roach or Keith Richards.

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I don't think you can really say who won the Cold War to be honest.True the Soviet Union collapsed and the West did "win" in that respect.Some wars where seen as part of the Cold War and one side or another got involved in them.Vietnam is a great example of this because we failed to realize that we were entering a civil war between the Vietnamese. The Russians did not gain from the out come of the Cold War very much at all.The Russian government made very little money on all of the arms because they had been giving it away for so long few people needed new weapons. If anything the end of the Cold War has allowed other nations to rise like China, Brazil and India.Generally speaking from a hegemonic point of view little has changed the Russians have less power but try to strongly influence neighbors and Russia still sees the West/NATO as a threat.The same can be said for the US and both the US and Russia still maintain sizable stockpiles of nuclear weapons.The game has not ended more than changed slightly and some nations are becoming big players that where not big players 40 years ago. A world war in the sense of WWII or WWI wont happen again.You will either see smaller nations fight smaller nations or a larger nation fight a smaller nation or group on a limited scale.A true world conflict would result in the major players using nuclear weapons against each other and that would be that more or unless you are a cock roach or Keith Richards. Last edited by Stealhead; 11-22-12 at 11:42 PM.